Julie has room for a new client. She is currently accepting clients where court, jail, cannabis and other legal issues are present. She works with the court system regularly and can keep your child out of jail. She also guarantees success regarding getting a child into psychiatric treatment.
A note from Julie:
I specialize in coaching that eventually becomes a management plan for the whole family. My work is extremely discrete. I never share my client list and I offer help even when change feels impossible. You are not alone. Coaching works. I also specialize in helping parents and partners understand the connection between cannabis and bipolar disorder symptoms.
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Over seven years ago, I started coaching partners and family members of people with bipolar disorder as an addition to my writing career.
Julie, how do I know if my partner really is better? He got out of the hospital last month after a massive manic and psychotic episode, but I feel like he is still sick. Julie, how long does this take and will ‘he’ ever come back? Loretta
Hello Loretta,
Yes, your partner will come back. Bipolar disorder symptoms are not permanent. With the right treatment, he will come back to homeostasis. You then need a management plan, but that is another topic!
Here is the list I use with clients when they ask how can they possibly know when someone is actually better.
Your husband is better when you see the following:
1. He acknowledges the trouble, pain and heartache he (due to his illness) caused when he was sick. “I am so sorry you had to go through this. It must have been hard for me to be in the hospital while you took [ Read More ]
Julie, is it different than the path anyone would take when seeking happiness?
Yes, I do believe it is!
I’ve lived all over the world- I moved a lot before I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I feel I can say with great conviction that I have known, loved, worked with and met far more people who are stable than those who have bipolar. This is natural as about 6% of the world population has bipolar disorder. It makes sense I would meet a lot of stable people. I have observed that the path to happiness for stable people is incredibly straight forward. Not easy by any means, but definitely a path that a person can see and track with confidence. For example, the desire to be [ Read More ]
Bipolar is rough. It’s rough on you and it’s rough on the people around you. Take it seriously. If you feel sick, ask for help. I’ve now lived with a serious mental health disorder since age 16. I was diagnosed over 20 years ago. And it still hurts when I get sick.
You are not alone if you feel you can’t go on. That is a symptom. It doesn’t mean you can’t go on. It means you are sick and need help.
Being manic feels fun at first, but you are probably not on this page while you’re feeling GREAT! You are on this page because you are struggling. The struggle comes when the feeling great ends.
I wish we could just all take a pill and never experience bipolar disorder symptoms again. In over 20 years of work in the bipolar disorder field, I have met only a handful of people who take medications and never get sick after a first episode. I know one person through my professional work who is free of symptoms because of medications. Most of us have symptoms that are not completely treated by meds and many of us, like myself can’t tolerate daily medications.
I’ve noticed that the meds help the random mood swings and help us stay more stable in every day life, but as soon as something big happens we can go right in to mood swings again.
The meds definitely make the mood swings less serious and in many cases, less lengthy, but the [ Read More ]
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